Retailers lose money in the gaps between stock, sales, and reconciliation. These guides cover retail management software with M-Pesa and eTIMS built in, plus the practical realities of fashion variants, selling by weight, bar wastage, and batch-and-expiry stock.
We recorded an unedited tour of a shop running on ERPNext, from the morning's first sale to the evening cash report. Here is what happens at each point of the day, and what you should be watching for when you evaluate any retail system.
A browser cannot send a receipt straight to a Bluetooth thermal printer. A small connector app bridges that gap, so your web-based sales system prints clean receipts without RawBT, watermarks or workarounds.
The inventory fundamentals every Kenyan shopkeeper should know - reorder points, stock counts, shrinkage and dead stock - and how ignoring them quietly drains profit.
A practical, Kenya-first guide to choosing retail management software in 2026 - what actually matters, what to ignore, and the mistakes that cost shopkeepers money.
Fashion retail lives and dies on variants - the same style in ten sizes and six colours. Here is how to track them properly so you stop losing sales and money to guesswork.
An honest breakdown of what retail management software costs in Kenya - the real price drivers, the fees suppliers hide, and how to judge value instead of just price.
For pharmacies and agrovets, batch and expiry tracking is both a compliance duty and a profit protector. Here is how to handle batches, FEFO and recalls without losing money.
Bars and restaurants lose margin through the bottle, the plate and the bin. Here is how recipes, portion control and honest wastage tracking keep hospitality profitable.
M-Pesa and eTIMS are now core to Kenyan retail, but plenty of software only pretends to support them. Here is how to tell real, built-in integration from a manual workaround.
Cereals, sugar, meat, hardware sold by length - selling loose is where stock quietly vanishes. Here is how to track weight and measure so your records match your shelves.
The everyday leaks that quietly drain a Kenyan shop's profit - unrecorded sales, spoilage, over-ordering, weak reconciliation - and a practical routine to plug them.
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